High Performance Leadership Series

Your next step in leadership development

The High Performance Leadership 3 day series taught by area experts includes interactive discussions, role playing, case studies, and lecture. They will teach you the skills you need to successfully engage your team members, build employee ownership and fearless performance reviews and use coaching as an effective leadership tool so that you have the confidence and skills to be a high performing leader. You may choose individual classes listed below or register for the entire series and save 10%.

Who should attend: Supervisors and managers who want to increase their skillset and create high performing and engaged teams.

Leading with Emotional Intelligence

Research by the Carnegie Institute concluded: "15% of success is technical skills - 85% is people skills." Emotional Intelligence is all about people skills - how well you know yourself and your emotions and how well you read and interact with others and their emotions. Learn about how the brain, the body and emotions affect each other, and then how to better manage your own emotions and the emotions of others so you can have clearer, more accurate communications that create cooperation and collaboration in the workplace. Each participant will complete an emotional intelligence assessment in class and will receive access to the online version of the assessment to complete in six months to measure their progress. This assessment reflects one’s style or approach to emotions. Participants will also complete an assessment that will help them determine specific skills areas to develop for a higher EQ.

Also included in this session:

The Five Domains of Emotional Intelligence

54 Characteristics of high and low emotional intelligence

Tools for increasing emotional intelligence

Practice in identifying emotions in others

Leading with Performance and Accountability

Your company's success depends on the commitment of each and every member of your team. This one day class presents a model for managing employee performance and provides you with specific tools you can use set performance goals, documenting performance, maintain ongoing communication, manage performance, conduct performance reviews, and develop performance improvement plans. Includes a copy of the book Fearless Performance Reviews by Jeff and Linda Russell.

What you will learn:

The 7 reasons why performance reviews often create fear

The 10 characteristics of fearless coaching conversations

How to develop the “right” mindset for performance management

What is a collaborative mindset and how to use it to create a winning approach

How to use the Great Performance Cycle to create high performing employees

The reasons why giving constructive feedback can be difficult

15 tips for giving constructive feedback for great results

Leader: Coach or Critic

This one day class will help you improve your power as a coach, helping your people grow and adapt to today's dynamic business demands as they learn new tasks, adapt to change, and develop their capabilities for today and the future. Through better coaching, you’ll enhance your retention, maximize productivity, and develop an efficient and motivated organization.

What you will learn:

What the feedback prevention law is and the 2 big mistakes of feedback

The “real” truth about giving feedback

Why people are critics and the consequences of criticism

The top reasons to coach employees

Obstacles for not offering coaching and how you can tip the balance to offer coaching more often

How to use a learning conversation to build trust and begin the coaching process

The 8 pitfalls of coaching and how to get it right from the start

Instructors

JEFF RUSSELL

SCOTT SAVAGE

PATRICIA CLASON

Patricia Clason

Leading with Emotional Intelligence

Patricia Clason is a communicator of the highest skill. She has been a professional speaker, trainer, consultant and writer for thirty years, doing over 4,000 presentations internationally. As the Director of the Center for Creative Learning, her focus is on alternative methods of teaching and learning that produce high quality results. As adjunct faculty at three universities, she specializes in emotional intelligence, ethics, coaching, leadership and mediation/conflict resolution. Patricia’s latest book “Speaking of Success” co-authored with Stephen Covey, Jack Canfield and Ken Blanchard, is now available at her website: Center for Creative Learning.

Jeff Russell

Leading for Performance and Accountability

Jeff Russell, (MS, UW-Madison) co-director of Russell Consulting, Inc., specializes in helping organizations achieve their goals by successfully responding to the challenges of continuous change. With a focus on leadership, strategic thinking, leading change, and performance coaching, Jeff has guided organizations as diverse as Fortune 500 firms, social and public sector organizations, and small family businesses toward their goals. Jeff received his Masters Degree in Industrial Relations from the UW-Madison where he serves as an ad hoc faculty member for the Small Business Development Center. Jeff also is an adjunct faculty member for UW-Milwaukee, UW-Green Bay, and UW-Colleges.

Scott Savage; Scott blends experience in corporate training, organizational development, management, and crisis counseling to create powerful learning. He provides executive coaching, leader development, group facilitation and team development services. He has more than twenty years experience providing training and development solutions to leaders in business, government, education and nonprofit organizations. Experience includes corporate trainer, executive coach, facilitator, team builder, human resource manager, deckhand, and steel worker.

Leading with Emotional Intelligence

Research by the Carnegie Institute concluded: "15% of success is technical skills - 85% is people skills." Emotional Intelligence is all about people skills - how well you know yourself and your emotions and how well you read and interact with others and their emotions. Learn about how the brain, the body and emotions affect each other, and then how to better manage your own emotions and the emotions of others so you can have clearer, more accurate communications that create cooperation and collaboration in the workplace. Each participant will complete an emotional intelligence assessment in class and will receive access to the online version of the assessment to complete in six months to measure their progress. This assessment reflects one’s style or approach to emotions. Participants will also complete an assessment that will help them determine specific skills areas to develop for a higher EQ.

Also included in this session:

The Five Domains of Emotional Intelligence

54 Characteristics of high and low emotional intelligence

Tools for increasing emotional intelligence

Practice in identifying emotions in others

Leading for Performance and Accountability

Your company's success depends on the commitment of each and every member of your team. This one day class presents a model for managing employee performance and provides you with specific tools you can use set performance goals, documenting performance, maintain ongoing communication, manage performance, conduct performance reviews, and develop performance improvement plans. Includes a copy of the book Fearless Performance Reviews by Jeff and Linda Russell.

What you will learn:

The 7 reasons why performance reviews often create fear

The 10 characteristics of fearless coaching conversations

How to develop the “right” mindset for performance management

What is a collaborative mindset and how to use it to create a winning approach

How to use the Great Performance Cycle to create high performing employees

The reasons why giving constructive feedback can be difficult

15 tips for giving constructive feedback for great results

Leader: Coach or Critic

This one day class will help you improve your power as a coach, helping your people grow and adapt to today's dynamic business demands as they learn new tasks, adapt to change, and develop their capabilities for today and the future. Through better coaching, you’ll enhance your retention, maximize productivity, and develop an efficient and motivated organization.

What you will learn:

What the feedback prevention law is and the 2 big mistakes of feedback

The “real” truth about giving feedback

Why people are critics and the consequences of criticism

The top reasons to coach employees

Obstacles for not offering coaching and how you can tip the balance to offer coaching more often

How to use a learning conversation to build trust and begin the coaching process

The 8 pitfalls of coaching and how to get it right from the start

Registration

Location: Grainger Hall, UW-Madison

Schedule: 8:30 am-4:30 pm

Dates and Fees:

High Performance Leadership Series includes all three programs: $740 (SAVE 10% reigister for series)
April 10,17 & 24, 2018 REGISTER ONLINE

Cancellation policy: If you cancel before the program begins, there is a $25 cancellation fee. If you cancel after the program begins you will be charged for the full program fee. To cancel, call registration at 608-262-3909.

If there is inclement weather, please call 608-263-2221 for a recorded message after 6:30 am for day classes or after 3:30 pm for night classes.